25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, May 9, 1971

ABOUT 60 rival football fans fought a battle in the centre of the pitch at Burnden Park before the match between Hull City and Bolton Wanderers, and at court today the chairman of the magistrates said that no amount of provocation justified retaliation. He added that he did not believe the atmosphere at matches today was suitable for young people.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, May 9, 1946

IN an area in which approaching 10,000 people are waiting for homes of their own, little progress has been made with housing programmes. So far as municipal housing is concerned, Farnworth appears to be in the lead, for it has two houses completed and tenanted, with 16 more nearly finished. These are the only Corporation houses built for rental and completed in this district since the war. Bolton's first post-war housing scheme is at Cameron-st., where 50 houses are in various stages of erection.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, May 9, 1871

AT a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, held in London last evening, a correspondence was read respecting Dr Livingstone. The substance of it was that Dr Livingstone was in safety and good health so recently as last October, in a village which appears to be near to the Tanganyaki. Dr Kirk, in a letter from Zanzibar to the Foreign Office, dated February 18, reported the steps he had taken for forwarding supplies to Ujiji for Dr Livingstone. Sir Henry Rawlinson, who presided at the meeting at which the above letters were read, said that, if intending to return, Dr Livingstone would now be on the coast, but that it was probable that, believing himself to be on the traces of the source of the Congo, as well as the Nile, he would most likely prosecute his discoveries, and in this case would again be lost sight of for some time.

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